american literature MCQs – Page 17

Practise focused american literature questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

american literature Mcqs
321. This person was captured by Native Americans but saved by Pocahontas _______________?
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A. Jerry Smith

B. Joseph Smith, Jr

C. John Smith

D. Hiram Smith

322. What does the priests sons prayers for the punishment of the tribes iniquities tell us about the Zuni tribe ?
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A. They are nosey and stays busy tending to other peoples business

B. That the Zunis are afraid of earthquakes and floods

C. The Zunis are spiritual and have a strong moral code that they live by and teach to their children

D. That the Zunis like to make up stories for pure entertainment

323. Who has been teaching Uncle Tom to read ?
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A. Haley

B. George

C. Mr.Symmes

D. Eliza

324. How does Eliza cross the Ohio river ____________?
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A. Hopping rafts of ice

B. In a stolen canoe

C. By ferry

D. On a makeshift raft

325. The use of a etcetera in the final line is_____________?
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A. alliteration

B. empathy

C. onomatopoeia

D. euphemism
326. Thoreau through this essay tries to portray_______________?
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A. Socialism

B. Naturalism

C. Transcendentalism

D. Imperialism
327. Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin to illustrate the evils of_________________?
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A. Alcohol

B. Foreign

C. Imperialism

D. Slavery
328. I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Coveys], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute! ?
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A. Benjamin Franklin

B. John Winthrop

C. Fredrick Douglass

D. William Apess

329. Who wrote The waste land ?
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A. Wallace Stevens

B. William Faulkner

C. T.S. Elliot

D. Langston Hues

330. Which of the following best defines the Enlightenment movement ?
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A. Political thinking

B. Celebration of individual

C. Age of reason

D. Philosophical movment

331. Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
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A. Indian Autobiography

B. Father of free verse

C. Father of American poetry

D. Both A and B
332. The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
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A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Eliza Snow

C. Elizabeth Browning

D. George Elliot

333. An Indians Looking Glass for the White Man illustrates what genre of early American writing ?
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A. Biography

B. Spiritual diary

C. Sermon

D. Autobiography

334. About Edward Taylor_____________?
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A. A and C

B. Was exiled to the New World because he wouldnt talk to the Church of England

C. Wrote Huswifery in an ornate style that wouldnt have been accepted by the Puritans

D. Wrote a poem about his house burning down